Neu-Life Featured for Safe Streets Healthy Kids on 88Nine RadioMilwaukee
Aug 19th, 2010
LINK: “Safe Streets, Healthy Kids”: Neu Life Community Center Meets 88Nine RadioMilwaukee
LINK: “Safe Streets, Healthy Kids”: Neu Life Community Center’s Peace Circle
Produced by Adam Carr
Producer Adam Carr of 88Nine RadioMilwaukee get to know Neu Life and a group of teens engaged in Peace Circles. The result is a series of radio interviews that really speak to the youth and adult talent at Neu Life, one of Safe & Sound’s funded Safe Places. Safe & Sound has conducted circles with Neu Life in the past and is currently working with Neu Life and Running Rebels to bring together an intergenerational project which will use the talking circles as a model for discussion.
“Not only is Neu Life completely focused on programming, but they develop it in a subtly innovative way; they ask kids what they want to do. If kids don’t want to participate in a program, no matter how good that program is for them in theory, it is not a good program. Successful after school programs view themselves as a competitor for the kids’ time. What do youth need? Alternatives to being idle and rudderless. If you manage to structure what they want to do, they’ll be willing and eager.”
Not only is Neu Life on the airwaves, but they also have a great Facebook page:
LINK: Neu Life Facebook
